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Google has filed a patent for a smartwatch that can take a small sample of your blood without the use of needles, and it could help diabetics more easily monitor their blood glucose levels throughout the day. Currently, diabetics need to perform a finger prick and use a blood glucose meter multiple times a day to make sure their insulin levels are under control. But based on the limited information we have so far, Google's new smartwatch-like device looks poised to replace that system with something less painful and more automatic. Given that the invention is still in the patent phase, Google is remaining tight-lipped about exactly how the device works, what it might be used for, or even when or if it'll get made. But it has provided a little bit of insight into the process. The patent application reveals that the device first sends an 'abrupt surge' of gas into a barrel containing a microparticle, which then punctures the skin to produce a small drop of blood. This droplet is then sucked into a negative pressure barrel, where it can be used for further testing. "Such an application might be used to draw a small amount of blood, for example, for a glucose test," Google writes in the application. From the diagrams released with the patent, it looks like the device is a little tube that's stored in the chunky watch-like device you can see above (hello, '80s design) and is then removed and used when the patient's blood needs to be taken. Although diabetics aren't specifically mentioned in the patent, it doesn't take a tech expert to read between the lines and get an idea of the intended target market. And it's also not the first time that Google has actively targeted diabetics with its inventions. Just last year, a research team at Google Life Sciences announced that it was developing 'smart' lenses that will be able to monitor blood glucose levels, and another group is working on disposable, bandage-sized glucose monitors. It's a pretty sensible business move for the company, with one in three US adults projected to have diabetes by 2050 if current trends continue, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Of course, just because Google has patented an idea, doesn't mean anything is going to come of it anytime soon. The tech company told The Verge: "We hold patents on a variety of ideas – some of those ideas later mature into real products or services, some don't. Prospective product announcements should not necessarily be inferred from our patents." But we can't help but hope this device makes it to market, because a faster and more painless way to monitor blood levels would make a whole lot of peoples' lives easier.
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Avast:help us call all those who want ti do DE o |
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Silas Akude, a member of the Lagos State Taskforce Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, is currently battling for his life at the Emergency Ward of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, after he was bathed with acid » by some hoodlums, popularly called 'Area Boys', at the Oshodi area of the state, the Punch reports. It was gathered that the miscreants had trailed the team in which Akude was part of and emptied the can of acid »on him, scalding his face, neck and other parts of his body. The officials were in the area to enforce traffic rules when a commercial bus filled with the hoodlums, suddenly halted at the junction where Akude was manning and one of them jumped down, emptied the substance on him and jumped back into the vehicle which took off immediately. A task force official who was a member of the team, told reporters how the incident happened on Friday, December 4. “We all moved out as a team and when we got to Oshodi, we moved to different spots to monitor traffic, arrest road traders and enforce the traffic law. We had divided ourselves into two that day. A group monitored Oshodi Isale, while the other group went to Oshodi Oke. Around 4pm, a Volkswagen bus on motion suddenly stopped in front of Silas, and somebody in the bus poured the acid on him. The bus drove off immediately.” The official believed the attack could have been a reprisal by someone Akude had arrested in the past as it was unprovoked.
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A teenage boy has reportedly been hauled before the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court of law over accusations of defiling two minors. The accused, revealed to be a student, living at Oke- Ira, Ogba, Lagos, was on Monday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court after he allegedly defiled two minors. The 16-yr-old is reported to be facing four counts bordering on defilement and assault. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Sections 137 and 259 stipulate imprisonment for life for the offender if found guilty. NAN reports that the prosecutor, Sgt. Jimah Iseghede, told the court that the offences were committed on November 12 at the accused’s residence, saying: “The accused lives with his parents in the same house with the victims and so it was easy for him to defile the girls, aged two and six. It was the cry of the two-year-old girl that attracted her mother and the accused was apprehended.” The accused, whose name had been withheld, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges, even after being caught red handed. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, granted the accused bail set at a million naira with two sureties in like sum. As part of the bail condition, the magistrate ordered the accused to deposit N250,000 into the court registrar’s , with the case adjourned to January 6. pulse.ng/gist/in-lagos-teenager-charged-before-court-for-defiling-two-minors-id4437354.html |
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Avast:u r welcome bro |
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[quote author=DaFlash post=40754782]I dont think so but you can lay low with this trend.[/quote I think I did dat now]
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DaFlash:can I delete the thread |
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DaFlash:yea,smth like dat |
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Abeg someone should tell me how to delete the thread myself before the MODS ban me
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I pray the MOD have mercy and spare me. I swear I no go do am again
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Anyway am waiting to get Ban for this. I neva knnew I can get ban for this
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DaFlash:Thanks bro I never knew that |
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So if I post the profile on Mark on Facebook am going to get ban?
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Born Mark Elliot Zuckerberg May 14, 1984 (age 31)[1] White Plains, New York, U.S. Residence Palo Alto, California, U.S. Alma mater Harvard University (dropped out) Occupation Computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur Years active 2004–present Known for Co-Founder of Facebook Home town Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S. Salary $1.00 a year [2] Net worth US$45.4 billion (December 2015)[3] Title Chairman and CEO of Facebook Spouse(s) Priscilla Chan (m. 2012) Children 1 Relatives Randi Zuckerberg (sister) Website facebook.com/zuck Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the chairman, chief executive, and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook.[4][5] His personal wealth, as of December 2015, is estimated to be $45.4 billion, ranked by Forbes as the 7th richest American. [3] Zuckerberg receives a one-dollar salary as CEO of Facebook.[2] In the spirit of The Giving Pledge, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced they would give the majority of their wealth over the course of their lives to "advancing human potential and promoting equality".[6][7] Together with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, he launched Facebook from Harvard's dormitory rooms.[8] The group then introduced Facebook onto other campuses nationwide and moved to Palo Alto, California shortly afterwards. In 2007, at the age of 23, Zuckerberg became a billionaire as a result of Facebook's success. The number of Facebook s worldwide reached a total of one billion in 2012. Zuckerberg was involved in various legal disputes that were initiated by others in the group, who claimed a share of the company based upon their involvement during the development phase of Facebook. Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year distinction.[9][10][11] Zuckerberg was played by actor Jesse Eisenberg in the 2010 film The Social Network, in which the rise of Facebook is portrayed.[12] He has been married to Priscilla Chan since 2012 and they have one child. Early life Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York.[13] He is the son of dentist Edward Zuckerberg and psychiatrist Karen Kempner.[14] He and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle,[15] were brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, a small Westchester County village about 21 miles (34 km) north of Midtown Manhattan.[15] Zuckerberg was raised Jewish and had his bar mitzvah when he turned 13. [16] Afterward, he became an atheist.[17][18][19] At Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg excelled in classics. He transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in his junior year, where he won prizes in science (math, astronomy and physics) and classical studies. On his college application, Zuckerberg claimed that he could read and write French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek. He was captain of the fencing team.[18][20][21][22] In college, he was known for reciting lines from epic poems such as The Iliad.[20] Software developer Early years Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Newman calls him a "prodigy", adding that it was "tough to stay ahead of him". Zuckerberg took a graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while still in high school. He enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games. In one such program, since his father's dental practice was operated from their home, he built a software program he called "ZuckNet" that allowed all the computers between the house and dental office to communicate with each other. It is considered a "primitive" version of AOL's Instant Messenger, which came out the following year. According to writer Jose Antonio Vargas, "some kids played computer games. Mark created them." Zuckerberg himself recalls this period: "I had a bunch of friends who were artists. They'd come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out of it." However, notes Vargas, Zuckerberg was not a typical "geek-klutz", as he later became captain of his prep school fencing team and earned a classics diploma. Napster co- founder Sean Parker, a close friend, notes that Zuckerberg was "really into Greek odysseys and all that stuff", recalling how he once quoted lines from the Roman epic poem Aeneid, by Virgil, during a Facebook product conference.[15] During Zuckerberg's high school years, under the company name Intelligent Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used machine learning to learn the 's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot[23] and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine.[24] College years By the time he began classes at Harvard, Zuckerberg had already achieved a "reputation as a programming prodigy", notes Vargas. He studied psychology and computer science as well as belonging to Alpha Epsilon Pi and Kirkland House.[9] [15][25] In his sophomore year, he wrote a program he called CourseMatch, which allowed s to make class selection decisions based on the choices of other students and also to help them form study groups. A short time later, he created a different program he initially called Facemash that let students select the best looking person from a choice of photos. According to Zuckerberg's roommate at the time, Arie Hasit, "he built the site for fun". Hasit explains: “ We had books called Face Books, which included the names and pictures of everyone who lived in the student dorms. At first, he built a site and placed two pictures, or pictures of two males and two females. Visitors to the site had to choose who was "hotter" and according to the votes there would be a ranking.[26] ” The site went up over a weekend; but by Monday morning, the college shut it down because its popularity had overwhelmed one of Harvard's network switches and prevented students from accessing the Internet. In addition, many students complained that their photos were being used without permission. Zuckerberg apologized publicly, and the student paper ran articles stating that his site was "completely improper."[26] The following semester, in January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website.[27] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.[28] Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product.[29] The three complained to the Harvard Crimson and the newspaper began an investigation in response. Following the official launch of the Facebook social media platform, the three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg that resulted in a settlement.[30] The agreed settlement was for 1.2 million Facebook shares that were worth US$300 million at Facebook's IPO.[31] Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year to complete his project.[32] In January 2014, Zuckerberg recalled: “ I really vividly, you know, having pizza with my friends a day or two after—I opened up the first version of Facebook at the time I thought, "You know, someone needs to build a service like this for the world." But I just never thought that we'd be the ones to help do it. And I think a lot of what it comes down to is we just cared more.[33] ” Career Zuckerberg listening to President Barack Obama before a private meeting where Obama dined with technology business leaders in Woodside, California, February 17, 2011. Also seen in the picture are Carol Bartz of Yahoo!, Art Levinson of Genentech, Steve Westly of The Westly Group, and Eric Schmidt of Google. Main articles: Facebook, History of Facebook and Timeline of Facebook Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004.[34][35] An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, "The Photo Address Book", which students referred to as "The Facebook". Such photo directories were an important part of the student social experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their friends, and their telephone numbers.[34] Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They began with Columbia, New York University, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, Brown, and Yale.[36] Samyr Laine, a triple jumper representing Haiti at the 2012 Summer Olympics, shared a room with Zuckerberg during Facebook's founding. "Mark was clearly on to great things," said Laine, who was Facebook's fourteenth .[37] After Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California with Moskovitz and some friends, they leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard but eventually decided to remain in California.[38][39] They had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy the company. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning: "It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me."[35] He restated these goals to Wired magazine in 2010: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open."[40] Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie about financing strategies for Facebook.[41] On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500 million- mark. [42] When asked whether Facebook could earn more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained: “ I guess we could..... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads..... That's the simplest thing we could do. But we aren't like that. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running; we are growing at the rate we want to.[40] ” In 2010, Steven Levy, who wrote the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, wrote that Zuckerberg "clearly thinks of himself as a hacker". Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better".[43][44] Facebook instituted "hackathons" held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project.[43] The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff , including Zuckerberg, regularly attended.[44] "The idea is that you can build something really good in a night", Zuckerberg told Levy. "And that's part of the personality of Facebook now..... It's definitely very core to my personality."[43] Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age".[45] Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009.[46] In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman's annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures.[47] In a 2011 interview with PBS after the death of Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg said that Jobs had advised him on how to create a management team at Facebook that was "focused on building as high quality and good things as you are".[48] On October 1, 2012, Zuckerberg visited Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow to stimulate social media innovation in Russia and to boost Facebook's position in the Russian market.[49] Russia's communications minister tweeted that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged the social media giant's founder to abandon plans to lure away Russian programmers and instead consider opening a research center in Moscow. In 2012, Facebook had roughly 9 million s in Russia, while domestic clone VK had around 34 million.[50] Rebecca Van Dyck, Facebook's head of consumer marketing, claimed that 85 million American Facebook s were exposed to the first day of the Home promotional campaign on April 6, 2013.[51] On August 19, 2013, the Washington Post reported that Zuckerberg's Facebook profile was hacked by an unemployed web developer.[52] At the 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt conference, held in September, Zuckerberg stated that he is working towards ing the 5 billion humans who were not connected to the Internet as of the conference on Facebook. Zuckerberg then explained that this is intertwined with the aim of the Internet.org project, whereby Facebook, with the of other technology companies, seeks to increase the number of people connected to the internet.[53][54] Zuckerberg was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC), held in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2014, which was attended by 75,000 delegates. Various media sources highlighted the connection between Facebook's focus on mobile technology and Zuckerberg's speech, claiming that mobile represents the future of the company.[55] Zuckerberg's speech expands upon the goal that he raised at the TechCrunch conference in September 2013, whereby he is working towards expanding Internet coverage into developing countries.[56] Alongside other American technology figures like Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook, Zuckerberg hosted visiting Chinese politician Lu Wei, known as the "Internet czar" for his influence in the enforcement of China's online policy, at Facebook's headquarters on December 8, 2014. The meeting occurred after Zuckerberg participated in a Q&A session at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, on October 23, 2014, where he attempted to converse in Mandarin Chinese —although Facebook is banned in China, Zuckerberg is highly regarded among the people and was at the university to help fuel the nation's burgeoning entrepreneur sector.[57] Zuckerberg fielded questions during a live Q&A session at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park on December 11, 2014. The founder and CEO explained that he does not believe Facebook is a waste of time because it facilitates social engagement, and participating in a public session was so that he could "learn how to better serve the community".[58][59] 1 Like |
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Scientists in Sweden have developed what they call "power paper" – a thin, paper-like material with a remarkable capacity to store energy. Just one sheet of the material measuring 15 centimetres in diameter and less than 0.5 millimetre thick can store 1 farad of electrical capacitance, which is about the same as many supercapacitors used in electric devices today. The material, which is made from nanocellulose and a conductive polymer, can be used then recharged, lasting for hundreds of charge cycles. And best of all, it only takes a few seconds to power up again. "Thin films that function as capacitors have existed for some time," said Xavier Crispin, a researcher from Linköping University's Laboratory of Organic Electronics. "What we have done is to produce the material in three dimensions. We can produce thick sheets." The researchers' material looks like black paper, but to the touch, has a more plasticky feel. Nonetheless, it exhibits other paper-like qualities too, such as strength, as demonstrated by its ability to be folded into origami shapes (the researchers apparently amused themselves by making an origami swan!). The team created the sheets by breaking down cellulose fibres using high-pressure water. These fibres measure just 20 nanometres in diameter, and are added to a water solution containing an electrically charged polymer. The polymer then forms a thin coating over the fibres. "The covered fibres are in tangles, where the liquid in the spaces between them functions as an electrolyte," said one of the team, Jesper Edberg. The full process is described in Advanced Science. The material, which the researchers claim sets new records for simultaneous conductivity for ions and electrons, could have a significant impact on how we store charge in small devices, and with further research might even be able to serve higher-capacity power needs. Unlike the batteries and capacitors we currently use – which use large amounts of metal and often contain toxic chemicals – the power paper is made from simple materials: renewable cellulose and readily available polymer. According to the researchers, the paper is light, requires no dangerous chemicals or heavy metals, and is waterproof to boot. The one challenge is developing an industrial process to manufacture it on a large scale. Like regular pulp paper, the material has to be dehydrated to make the sheeting. If the team can solve this puzzle, possibly with the help of commercial partners, power paper could be something we see a lot more of in the future.
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If you aspire to obtain a JAMB Direct Entry form into Nigeria's Premier University (UI) for 2016/2017 academic session, let's meet here. The earlier the better, let's start our preparation now. Let's discuss those salient and little little things that end up disqualifying candidates after so much efforts. Meanwhile, i use this medium to congratulate the new intake in UI, I advise you start working towards Building your G.P, year one is the best time to lay solid foundation. moreover, we need you now to supply us with relevant info. Success 2all
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The students of the Obafemi Awolowo University have called for the probe of their vice chancellor, Prof. Bamitale Omole, this call was made as a result of the on going protest the students are staging due to the poor state of their hostel facilities and the lackadaisical attitude of the school management towards the welfare of the students. The students in the broadcast sent on Saturday called on EFCC to probe their Vice chancellor. Here is the full broadcast that was sent: BREAKING NEWS. War Against Corruption!!! The Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof Bamitale Omole, has been openly accused of billions of naira embezzlement and mismanagement of public funds, by the Assembly of Great ife students. Obafemi Awolowo University internally generates over 22 billion naira on annual basis. The 2014 ASUU strike earned the school management a share cake of 3 billion naira for the improvement of students well being, however, Prof Bamitale Omole annexed this fund, and divided it into 2 separate despite the ruling of the federal government that all federal institution should run a single . Under prof Tale Omole, 500 million naira was spent for the construction a swimming poor. Copied oauvibes..co.ke/2015/12/oau-students-want-efcc-to-probe-their.html?spref=fb&m=1 |
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